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  1. Oh yeah... on Computer Studies w/o Excessive Coding? · · Score: 1

    ...I just remembered something from uni. Once you get the deal with OO the rest will suddenly click. It was like that for pretty much everyone in my course.

  2. Been there... on Computer Studies w/o Excessive Coding? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    General Methods
    Find buddies.
    I'm not kidding. People to study with equals much faster learning. When I started uni (too long ago) I was doing a Comp Sci/Electronic Engineering double, and the workload was insane. Pretty quickly, everyone worked out pretty quickly that the only way to cope with the insane workloads was to work together.

    I don't mean cheating either. It's just that it's like having a tutor, all the time. That should be your first port of call, and if you still can't do it, (not having at go at you) you should really look at a change of careers.

    Hope that helped.

  3. Old News on 3D Display, No Glasses Required · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Old news, but the best article I've read on this yet is the New Scientistarticle from a couple of years ago in which they first (for me) described realtime rendering using existing games. Interesting stuff.

  4. Re:Text of article on Development Of The TiVo Remote Charted · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...and in other news, several thousand internet users mysteriously suffered spontaneous eye bleeding.

  5. Re:My wife.... on Strangest Valentine's Day Gifts? · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...at the same time. ;)

  6. Re:again with the spellchecking... on Novell Quotes AT&T on Derivative Works · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Impaired" has an "i" in it. And you misspelt it twice. Nice going.

  7. Not really MyDoom.C on MyDoom.C Making Its Way Across The Net · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Apart from the fact that it uses the backdoor created by MyDoom to spread, it doesnt have enough in common with MyDoom to be a variant of it, which is probably why on the CNET link it only mentions the name Doomjuice.

    The MyDoom.C name used in links such as the ABC one is probably for good headlines

  8. Mod parent up... excellent post on Choosing a Cochlear Implant? · · Score: 1

    great post

  9. Great... on SCO Offers $250K Bounty for MyDoom Author's Arrest · · Score: 1

    Another opportunity for some great PR from this idiot company.

    Bet they were rubbing their hands when they heard about this one.

  10. ACCC Complaint form: on Australian Firm Asks SCO To Detail Evidence · · Score: 3, Informative
  11. Something like this... on Real-Life Halo Armor Creators Quizzed · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...is a perfect example of why people need to get laid more (troll not intended).

  12. This might be important... on Safer Means Of Disposing Of Mad Cows · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This might be important, but the real issue is early detection of this desease, avoiding cross contamination, etc. If you want to be scared, trace the life of a cow once it leaves the farm, and play spot the faults at every step along the way. Trust me... it is very, very easy.

    I've heard it said that one hamburger can contain parts from 1000 head of cattle. When youre talking those sorts of numbers, the potential for outbreak, both for this and other diseases, is huge.

    Disposing of the bodies is one thing, but far more important is early detection and isolation.

  13. Re:Hate to say this, but... on Application-Centricity in Our Schools? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Spot on.

    To the thread author: welcome to the real world, where youll find people rejecting your work for things as insignificant as font size or program version.

    Consider it a learning experience which could have been worse... at least you were allowed to redo it.

  14. What choice did they have? on Microsoft Extends Win98/SE Support · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Seriously. Ignoring all other concerns, if they extend the release date of their next OS a couple of years, they should extend the same treatment to their last supported. If anything, this is the most solid admission (in public terms) I've seen of the admission of a very delayed Longhorn release date.

  15. Re:Piracy of all sorts on Games X Copy Stirs Backup Controversy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    On the other hand, they have by now had DVD X Copy as a test case, so they must be making something to bother continuing...

  16. A serious question... on Australian Pilot Stranded In Antarctica · · Score: 1

    Australia has bases there and controls a huge chunk of the continent. He had originally planned to fly to Argentina, and if he's only an hour short of there, surely he has enough fuel to fly to an Australian base instead?

  17. What Im worried about on Spamholes Fighting Spammers · · Score: 1

    I am willing to contribute to this, having some GB/month to spare, and hating spammers... but what Im wondering is how much bandwidth this might cost?

  18. Piece of cake... on Dance Dance Revolution World Endurance Record Broken · · Score: 1

    Give me a G of meth and 100 hours, and Ill make this kid look like a sloth...

    ...he just couldnt afford enough drugs.

  19. When girls make it, let them choose on A Call for Expandable Codpieces In MMORPGs · · Score: 1

    Men make it... men play it...men pick. ;)

  20. Normal American reaction.... on Taipei 101 Now World's Tallest Building · · Score: 1

    They most likely think of the Empire State or the (now disassembled) Twin Towers as the largest. Nitpick all you want. If it made it, it made it. At the first to break a half km, it deserves some respect.

  21. On closer inspection on What's Wacky with Google? · · Score: 1

    "Candle truck" returns 109k matches, while "fuck truck" returns 631k.

    Upon hearing this news, I will be refashioning all stock in my candle shop as dildos, as there appear to be at least 6 times as many fuckers in the world as I previously thought.

  22. Well... on Merrill Lynch Rips Sun · · Score: 1

    I should start making recommendations to major companies.

    Maybe then I'd finally get people pretending with me.

  23. I can relate to this... on Living Life in Fast-Forward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...having found that double the playtime for twice as many times is of far greater value than half the speed for half the repetitions. It also forms the backbone of many memory fads... an example is the last tape of the Mega Memory course, where, you can hear Kev extoll the values of high speed learning. Personally, I think the best thing a Uni student will ever own is a variable speed notetaker.